For the last mailbag of 2019, we chose an email, a tweet, a DM and a comment that all ask the same question:
In the Age of Trump, you can’t help be pessimistic about the future. There’s something nasty about this new age. A…
There was a time back when Kwanzaa and Christmas were cruising on a yacht popping Cristal and truly Big Pimpin’.
I was raised in a fundamentalist church that believed in the seventh-day Sabbath, tambourines and neverending,…
There’s a Christmas song by Jackson 5-era Michael Jackson that appears on the 1973 double album—A Motown Christmas—th…
Sometimes I take for granted how much God* has blessed me.
1. When I was done making my purchase yesterday—a Wilton Icing Writing Black Pen and three Sterilite Clearview Latch…
Remember Carly Fiorina? No, she wasn’t the lead of the hit Nickelodeon series iCarly. She was the Republican…
In a dystopian world where no other actress exists, Kristen Stewart has been named Actress of the Decade by the…
Whenever someone asks if writing the weekly Clapback Mailbag ever gets old, I tell them that receiving and reading…
I planned to explain my leave of absence from The Root before it happened. Then, during my wife’s routine doctor’s…
I was at my grandmother’s house when I first saw the TurboGrafx-16 of Christmas trees. My mother had explained that…
Each Friday, we wade through our emails, tweets, comments and DMs to respond to readers who are searching for…
Congress held public impeachment hearings last week on whether President Trump abused his power to enlist a foreign…
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Some of the hardest conversations my sister and I have are about our mom.
1. As a kid, what music did you listen to?
I will never forget the day my skin thickened.
Kid Rock is no fan of Oprah Winfrey.
I don’t know if you heard about it, but I wrote something pretty controversial this week.